IN THIS ISSUE
May, 2013
Tagged as 'Information Security'
Wednesday, May, 1, 2013 | Jason Shropshire
Using Security to Promote IT Maturity
Tags: Information Security, Information Assurance, FISMA
Federal CIOs have been under significant pressure to strengthen information security programs since the Federal Information Management Security Act was first signed into law in 2002. This pressure has come in the form of more focused and pointed Inspector General audit findings (a result of improved NIST audit guidance for measuring security controls as defined in NIST SP 800-53A). Inspector's General are increasing their focus on the status and presence of Authority to Operate (ATOs) for applications within their agency’s FISMA inventory.
Thursday, November, 1, 2012 | Kofi Mainu
Best Practices for IT Security
Tags: Cyber Security, Information Security
We all know what best practices for IT mean—finding and using the best ways to achieve your business objectives. It means keeping up to date with the ways that successful businesses operate in your sector and measuring your ways of working against those used by the market leaders.
Tuesday, November, 1, 2011 | Steven P. Bucci
Cyber Security: Being Agile and Ahead of the Bad Guys
Tags: Information Security, Continuous Monitoring, Information Assurance, Cyber, Cyber Security
Many factors can claim being keys to cyber security: Information sharing, public private partnerships, education, and awareness are all vitally important to our national and individual efforts to protect our networks, our data, and our systems. Advocates of these areas and those of technology, work force training, and leadership, all can rightfully declare their niche is imperative to our security, but I would like to offer another; agility
Saturday, October, 1, 2011 | Steven P. Bucci
Continuous Monitoring: A Mandate We All Need
Tags: Cyber, it security, Continuous Monitoring, FISMA, Governance, Infrastructure, Information Security
Today the United States lives in a true ‘round the clock digital environment. On the up side, our digital infrastructures never sleep, and this gives us an unprecedented advantage over competitor nations and a host of blessings to our citizens.